Saturday, September 26, 2020

When someone like Coney-Barrett comes along the decisions, minority or majority, will reorder society.

Frozen Embryo Transfer (click here)

Patients interested in frozen embryo transfer will first undergo a fresh IVF cycle to create embryos. During this assisted reproductive procedure, Dr. Kalan or Winkler will harvest eggs through a natural or medication-assisted ovulation cycle and fertilize the eggs with the partner’s, or chosen donor’s, sperm. After about five days of growth in the laboratory, all viable embryos are frozen (cryopreserved).

When embryos become citizens what then is the future of frozen embryos? Currently, the donors of sperm and eggs, usually a couple, have ownership over them. But, when they are citizens who has the last word on ownership or citizenship? Will the government be able to come in and force the embryos to be carried to term? And if the couple is not willing to have all those children does the government have the OBLIGATION to see every "embryo citizen" has a chance at a full life? What will the financial status of the embryos be now that they are full citizens? Can they be taken as dependents? And if the answer is yes, do they have a dependency status the same as any other naturally born child, or will it be forever until they reach a full life capacity.

When a political party plays with these issues there are ever-increasing dangers in ways no one ever bargained for and will result in the compromise of our democracy. Such decisions create monsters and not resolutions to a society's problem. This is only one question that would result in the case the Supreme Court ends the idea of abortion and makes fertilized eggs into citizens.

Barrett is a political pick, not a qualified candidate. She is a crackpot. The USA is not the Vatican.

She is one of several women who moved into the federal judicial system by Trump for the purpose of political choice rather than experience and knowledge.

It is unfortunate that Barrett was nominated for a Supreme Court seat. She is a crackpot. She needs a ministry, not a judicial seat, but, the Catholic Church won't allow women to have a priesthood.

This is an extremely rare photo (click here) where she can be found outside a black robe. She is anti-everything, including democracy. There is absolutely no standing for her PLEDGE to be against stare decisis. There is no one who can change the words in the US Consitution no matter how hard they try. Stare Decisis is a fact, not an opinion. Barrett is a crackpot when she can't even fall into line with stare decisis.

Barrett's opining will frequently stand in opposition to the judicial wisdom of the great Supreme Court Ruth Badar Ginsburg compositions. Barrett's opining is very arbitrary political and not thoughtful.

20 U. Haw. L. Rev. 835 (1998) (click here)
When Is an Innovation in Order: Justice Bader Ruth Ginsburg and Stare Decisis

Predictably so, she is a favorite "Federalist Society" darling. (click here)

Her decisions will be to enslave women to their bodies and oppress their rights and choices in life. A fact of life is that a woman's capacity of reproduction and the degree she engages in pregnancy HAS TO BE LEFT TO THE WOMAN. There isn't anything else to say.

We have seen the tragedy of declaring a fertilized egg a person. There will be investigations into every miscarriage and women will find themselves living alone rather than with a man in or out of marriage. If Barrett has her way, married women will need permits to have intercourse with their husbands in order to become pregnant or she may even demand married people only engage in the assistance of a clinic to become pregnant insuring the child will not be a bastard child.

She has absolutely no experience to have her understand the place of the court in the lives of Americans. She is an originalist which means she sees only wealthy white men have control over the US Constitution. The TONE of this White House exudes only that priority in it's racist stances and promoting violence by White Supremacists.

White Supremacists is proof of this White House leanings into originalist goals.

My views are not alone and not new. She is a known commodity to be a crackpot. She is not qualified nor is her judicial proceedings to date helpful to the people of the USA. Who goes up against the Supreme Court's Chief Justice unless it is to force her nomination as a political favorite.

September 28, 2017
By Laurie Goldstein

One of President Trump’s judicial nominees (click here) became something of a hero to religious conservatives after she was grilled at a Senate hearing this month over whether her Roman Catholic faith would influence her decisions on the bench.

The nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, a law professor up for an appeals court seat, had raised the issue herself in articles and speeches over the years. The Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee zeroed in on her writings, and in the process prompted accusations that they were engaged in religious bigotry.

“The dogma lives loudly within you,” declared Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, in what has become an infamous phrase. Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, accused his colleagues of employing an unconstitutional “religious test” for office.

Ms. Barrett told the senators that she was a faithful Catholic, and that her religious beliefs would not affect her decisions as an appellate judge. But her membership in a small, tightly knit Christian group called People of Praise never came up at the hearing, and might have led to even more intense questioning....

Her devotion to religion over the US Constitution is exhibited over and over again. As a member of an elite group of Catholics at Notre Dame, she advised EXISTING AND SITTING JUDGES. An academic provided advice as if a peer. She was not a peer and under the First Amendment, religious freedom is absolute. Any judge can determine AS INDIVIDUALS in their ability to sit on a case that MIGHT lead to the death penalty. She lacks maturity within the practice of law and considers others beneath her intellect and incompetent to make their own decisions in regard to their religious affiliations in their ability to be judges. 

...She later (click here) became of a law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, where she was a member of Faculty for Life, an anti-abortion group at the university. One of her mentors was law professor John Garvey, now president of the Catholic University of America.

Garvey collaborated with Barrett on a 1998 law review article that argued that Catholic judges may recuse themselves from death penalty cases because of the church’s opposition to the death penalty.

The law review article drew attention during Barrett’s 2017 hearing in which she was confirmed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago, according to Politico. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., mentioned the article when questioning Barrett about Roe v. Wade....

She is not a competent practitioner of the US Constitution.

Joe Biden actually has an economic plan. Trump doesn't have one. Period. He doesn't have a cohesive economic plan.

September 24, 2020
By Sylvan Lane

A victory for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, (click here) a Democratic takeover of the Senate and defense of the party's House majority in the November elections would be the best outcome for the U.S. economy, according to an analysis released Wednesday by Moody’s Analytics.

In an analysis of potential Election Day outcomes based on the economic proposals of President Trump and Biden, Moody’s found that a Democratic sweep would bring the quickest return to full employment, highest number of jobs added and best rebound in economic growth.

“The economic outlook is strongest under the scenario in which Biden and the Democrats sweep Congress and fully adopt their economic agenda,” wrote Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, who provided economic analysis for the late Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) 2008 presidential campaign, and economist Bernard Yaros....

Americans are purchasing their economy through tax cuts. There is no plan. Trump dumps trillions of money into the economy in order for Wall Street to claim high numbers of trading. Trump focuses on the Wall Street trading numbers. That has nothing to do with the economy that provides jobs and income to the people. The evidence of that observation is the fact the unemployment numbers are very high with those people left out of the "purchase economy" of the USA, yet the financial markets (Wall Street) are doing exceptionally well. Many of the companies traded in the financial markets are not even paying a dime of taxes. None.

April 11, 2019
By Kathryn Kranhold

About twice as many of the largest U.S. companies (click here) reported they didn’t owe taxes in 2018 compared with previous years, a partial result of the 2017 Trump tax law, according to a report....

...At least 60 companies reported that their 2018 federal tax rates amounted to effectively zero, or even less than zero, on income earned on U.S. operations, according to an analysis released today by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The number is more than twice as many as ITEP found roughly, per year, on average in an earlier, multi-year analysis before the new tax law went into effect.

Among them are household names like technology giant Amazon.com Inc. and entertainment streaming service Netflix Inc., in addition to global oil giant Chevron Corp., pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly & Co., and farming and commercial equipment manufacturer Deere & Co.

The identified companies were “able to zero out their federal income taxes on $79 billion in U.S. pretax income,” according to the ITEP report, which was released today. “Instead of paying $16.4 billion in taxes, as the new 21 percent corporate tax rate requires, these companies enjoyed a net corporate tax rebate of $4.3 billion, blowing a $20.7 billion hole in the federal budget last year.” To compile the list, ITEP analyzed the 2018 financial filings of the country’s largest 560 publicly-held companies....

The negative tax rate by these companies is real and not just a phrase that helpd justifies the zero tax rate. These companies with negative tax rates GET REBATES of taxes previous paid and/or yet to pay.

...The Moline, Illinois-based Deere, which was started in 1837 by blacksmith John Deere, who made farming plows, reported earning $2.15 billion in U.S. income before taxes. It owed no U.S. taxes in 2018 and reported that it was owed $268 million from the government, after taking into consideration various deductions and credits, according to its annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company reported global profits of $2.37 billion.

Asked about the rebate, Brian Moens, one longtime Deere employee, was contemplative. “Everyone should pay their fair share whether it is an individual or a corporation,” he said. “If just the small individuals are paying it without large corporations doing their part, I don’t see that being fair.”...

Donald John Trump has indulged corporations as a means of success of an economy that exists while he is in office. The reason is that it is easy to talk everyday about "Wall Street Numbers." Everyday there are channels of media that discuss trading resulting in higher profits to these companies.

The Republican Tax Plan voted in to law during the first year Trump was in office gave the Middle Class a break for the first year, but, this is the fourth years of that tax plan and there are increases in that income tax.

Pelosi, Oct. 5, press availability: The tax cuts in the bill — 80 percent of the tax cuts in the bill benefit the top 1 percent in our country. $2.6 trillion in tax cuts go to corporate America. Around $475 million — excuse me, $475 billion in tax increases go to Middle America. … So, again, it raises taxes on middle class, cuts the tax of the wealthiest, adds trillions to the deficit.

Those increases were actually 5 percent on households of $112,500 – $190,150. These people would never see increases in taxes for the Joe Biden tax plan. Increases in taxes begin with households earning at $400,000 or more.

The rest of the Trump economic plan also includes tariffs that are passed on to the American consumer. So the Chinese Shipping Magnate that benefits from Moscow Mitch's will pass his tariff fees to Americans and will maintain the wealth he has to pass on to Mitch. That means small money donors will have less money to donate to their favorite candidates while foreign dark money can continue unabated.

Tariffs are supposed to reduce the trade deficit. In other words, tariffs are incentives to other countries to increase American products to their shores. When a better trade balance is better, the tariffs are supposed to be reduced or ended in recognition of that accomplishment. That hasn't occurred under Trump.

The article below is from March of 2019 before the Global Pandemic that the USA is caught up in because of Trump's absence and failing policies. The trade deficit in 2018 increased by more than 10 percent,

March 7, 2019
By Robert E. Scott

The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the U.S. goods trade deficit reached a record of $891.3 billion in 2018, an increase of $83.8 billion (10.4 percent). The broader goods and services deficit reached $621.0 billion in 2018, an increase of $68.8 billion (12.5 percent). The rapid growth of U.S. trade deficits reflect the failure of Trump administration trade policies, as well as the negative impacts of tax cuts and spending increases, which have sharply increased the federal budget deficit, and tightening of U.S. monetary policy, resulting in upward pressure on interest rates and the real value of the dollar....

...Unless these trends are offset by a rapid decline in the value of the U.S. dollar, rapidly rising trade deficits could be devastating for U.S. manufacturing, likely giving rise to massive job loss on the scale experienced in the 2000–2007 period, when 3.5 million U.S. manufacturing jobs were lost....

July 23, 2020
By Kimberly Amadeo

...2017: By May, the euro (click here) had risen to $1.09. Investors left the dollar for the euro due to allegations of connections between President Trump's administration and Russia. By the end of the year, the euro had risen to $1.20.

2018: The euro continued its ascent. On February 15, it was $1.25. In April, the euro began weakening after President Trump initiated a trade war. The euro fell to $1.16 on June 28, a few days after the Federal Reserve raised the fed funds rate to 2%. A higher interest rate strengthens a currency because investors receive more return on their holdings. But the by end of the year, the euro was $1.15.

2019: The euro declined until September when it reached $1.10. It rose briefly in December to $1.11. The euro followed news about the ongoing trade war....

The Euro has fluctuating since the Global Pandemic. These observations of the US Dollar is before the spread of SARS-CoV-2. So, the economic trajectory of the Trump White House was causing losses in value of the US Dollar.

Trump's painful tariffs never accomplished a trade balance with China because China has lowered the value of their currency. Trump's tariffs are a joke.

...Although the United States has imposed tariffs of 10 to 25 percent on $250 billion in imports from China (about half of total U.S. imports from that country), China has played its ‘ace-in-the-hole’ by allowing it’s currency to fall by roughly 10 percent against the dollar. As a result, the U.S. trade deficit with China increased faster (11.6 percent) than the U.S. deficit with the world as a whole (10.4 percent)....

The table below is difficult to read (click here) It is the Federal Reserve of the "Price-adjusted Board Dollar Index- Monthly Index. Everything is artificial in Trump world. There is no real study of the USA economy and it's artificial nature to satisfy the president's politics.

Effective on February 4, 2019, (click here) the Federal Reserve Board staff will make major changes to the methodology used to construct the trade-weighted dollar indexes in the H.10, G.5, and G.5A releases. These changes will affect the calculation of index weights and country composition. The new dollar indexes will go back to (and be indexed to) January 2006. For more information, see "Revisions to the Federal Reserve Dollar Indexes" and "Technical Q&As".



Joe Biden and the Democrats' economic policies are based on traditional values of American health wellness and the confidence of the American worker to return to work.